Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled today, Tuesday, to the North Shore, where he pledged to find ways to build more resilient infrastructure after inspecting the severe damage caused by Post-Tropical Storm Fiona. The Prime Minister was in Stanley Bridge, where the storm and hurricane-force winds flipped buildings and threw fishing boats onto the shore early Saturday. Trudeau also said: "There are always lessons to be learned, unfortunately, the reality of climate change is that there will be more extreme weather events. We have to think about how to ensure we are ready for anything that comes our way." The Prime Minister is also expected to head later Tuesday to two communities in Cape Breton: Glass Bay and Sydney.

On Saturday morning, Fiona left a trail of destruction across a wide area of Atlantic Canada, stretching from the eastern mainland of Nova Scotia to Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island, and southwestern Newfoundland. Power outages occurred, dozens of homes were leveled, and the resulting cleanup is expected to take months, if not years, to complete. Additionally, the storm, which set a record, was blamed for two deaths. Trudeau told reporters in Stanley Bridge: "The federal government is here as a partner; we were working before the storm to prepare for the worst, and the worst happened."

Also, more than 200,000 homes and businesses in Atlantic Canada remained without power Tuesday afternoon – more than 134,000 of them in Nova Scotia and 71,000 in Prince Edward Island. When asked if it was time for Ottawa to invest more in burying overhead power lines, Trudeau said there are lessons to be learned from what happened in Atlantic Canada and eastern Quebec, stating: "We are looking at ways to build more resilient infrastructure; the truth is that extreme weather events will become more severe in the coming years because our climate is changing. That is why we have to make sure we adapt to it."

In the same context, the Canadian Space Agency released two satellite images of Prince Edward Island on Tuesday, one taken on August 21 and the other on September 25, a day after Fiona hit the island with hurricane-force winds exceeding 140 kilometers per hour. The second image clearly shows the clear blue waters around the island interspersed with massive columns of sand and submerged soil extending far from the shore. The agency also tweeted that the images show "the extent to which high winds and storm waves have eroded the seabed and coastline."